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Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test
The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) is a ten-question WHO screening questionnaire that detects hazardous drinking, harmful drinking, and possible alcohol dependence in health care settings.
Clinical interview
A clinical interview is a conversational assessment method in which a trained interviewer questions a respondent about symptoms and life circumstances to arrive at psychiatric diagnoses.
Diagnostic interview
A diagnostic interview is a structured or semi-structured clinical conversation used to elicit symptoms and history and establish a psychiatric diagnosis mapped to DSM or ICD criteria.
Diagnostic Interview Schedule
The Diagnostic Interview Schedule is a fully structured psychiatric interview designed in 1978 by Lee Robins and colleagues at Washington University so lay interviewers could make DSM-III psychiatric diagnoses.
Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children
The Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children (DISC) is a structured diagnostic interview, sponsored by the NIMH, that assesses more than 30 psychiatric disorders of children and adolescents.
Eating Disorder Examination
The Eating Disorder Examination (EDE) is a semi-structured interview developed by Zafra Cooper and Christopher Fairburn, first published in 1987 and considered the gold standard eating disorder assessment.
Impaired abstract thinking
Impaired abstract thinking (ICD-11 MB21.6) is a cognitive clinical sign of concrete, non-figurative reasoning, assessed in the mental status examination and WAIS Similarities, seen in dementias and schizophrenia.
Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview
The Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI) is a brief structured diagnostic interview for DSM-IV and ICD-10 psychiatric disorders, developed by psychiatrists in the United States and Europe and completed in about 15 minutes.
Orientation test
The orientation test is a bedside component of the mental status examination that probes a patient's awareness of person, place, time, and situation, documented as alert and oriented times three or four.
Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry
The Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry (SCAN) is a set of semi-structured clinical interview instruments developed by the World Health Organization to diagnose adult mental disorders.
Structured Clinical Interview for DSM
The Structured Clinical Interview for DSM (SCID) is a semi-structured clinician interview that establishes psychiatric diagnoses using DSM criteria, long considered the research gold standard.